Hot Girls Wanted (2015)

 Hot Girls Wanted (2015) 

A camera crew somehow was allowed into a home owned by a young entrepreneur named Riley. Riley recruits girls 18-25 from Craigslist. However, he doesn't trick them in any way--he offers them airplane tickets to his home in Miami and they move there specifically to make porn. The home is filled with a half dozen or so aspiring 'actresses' and the crew interviews them and follows them on some of their jobs. They are there to have sex on camera and supposedly live an exciting life in the sun.

The part about all this that surprised me is that the film does NOT show strung-out drug addicts or illegal aliens forced into sex slavery. Instead, the girls seem to come from rather normal backgrounds and they want to be porn stars for fast money--bored girls with no thoughts about tomorrow. And, while I am sure some will find my words harsh, they seem incredibly vacuous and selfish. AIDS, pregnancy and the realities of the industry seemed irrelevant to these stars. They are simply out to have a good time and that's all that matters to them...end of story. This brings us to a major weakness in the film. You really don't care about these ladies because they all seemed to know exactly what they were getting into and they weren't very nice folks. They seem completely amoral and self-absorbed, so it really was hard to find much in the way of meaning to all this. As a father of two daughters, I was horrified by these women and their attitudes...but felt at least in these stories, they were involved with their eyes wide open...at least most of the time. The proliferation of rape and violence porn came as a surprise to me and some of them, as their fun lives (as they put it) stopped being fun when they were deliberately hurt or completely degraded in a few of the films. This part was a bit shocking as well as quite sad--and this was one case where I did feel for a couple of the girls, as they were raped or nearly raped to satisfy some guys' bizarre fantasies.

Overall, this film is mildly interesting but overly long. (IMDB  planktonrules)




























Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (1971)


Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (1971)
aka
Grauen um Jessica
The Secret Beneath the Lake

Jessica (Zohra Lampert),her husband and their friend start a new life in the country, but Jessica, who has a history off mental illness, starts to believe the area is haunted and grows suspicious of the young woman who has joined them at their house..."Let's Scare Jessica to Death" is an excellent low-budget horror film loaded with eerie atmosphere of rising paranoia. Zohra Lampert does a terrific job showing us Jessica's growing desperation and there are some fairly gruesome gore effects at the end. The photography is gritty and the climax is extremely haunting. The viewer is never sure whether Jessica is really onto something sinister,or whether she's just going insane. There are some subtle touches of eeriness: Jessica's husband drives a hearse,and she decorates their new home with tracings she made from a local cemetery.S o if you are a fan of old-fashioned spooky horror films give this overlooked gem a look. (IMDB  HumanoidOfFlesh)







Zohra Lampert











Mariclare Costello - Zohra Lampert